Decolonisation
Pretendians and the crisis of the self
Why are people manufacturing indigenous heritage?
A race to the bottom
“Decolonisation” ideology distorts and condescends
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Decoloniser heal thyself
Decolonisation is a new form of Western elitism that risks turning campuses into ideological bootcamps
History wars roll on
In Britain, contentious historical issues receive attention to an unprecedented degree
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Now’s your time, House of Lords
The upper house must prove its worth by opposing the shabby Chagos Islands deal
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
